Wigmore Hall – Brahms and Kurt Schwertsik
Monday 10th May, Wigmore Hall at 1.00pm, live stream
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
Kurt Schwertsik (b.1935)
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt
Johannes Brahms
Viola Sonata in E flat Op. 120 No. 2
2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet.